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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
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[–] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's not that developers are switching to AI tools it's that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Undoubtedly. But you agree that the crowdsourced knowledge base of existing answers is useful, no? That is what the islop searches and reproduces. It is more convenient than waiting for a rude answer. But I don't think islop will give you a good answer if someone has not been bothered answer it before in SO.

    islop is a convenience, but you should fear the day you lose the original and the only way to get that info is some opaque islop oracle

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Most answers on SO are either from a doc page, are common patterns found in multiple books, or is mostly opinion-based. Most code AIs are significantly better at the first two without even being trained on SO (which I wouldn't want anyway - SO really does suck nowadays)

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